Tech & Innovation

Tech & Innovation

A Q&A with Kevin Henrikson & JJ Zhuang, our VPs of Fulfillment Engineering Kevin Henrikson and JJ Zhuang go together like PB&J — they’re the engineering “odd couple” that leads Instacart’s fulfillment engineering organization. Before...

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TL;DR To preserve and share the state of a stream (e.g. for rotations, dialogs), we can host the stream in Android’s ViewModel by using .replay(1).autoConnect() to share the stream’s state and a Relay to share...

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A Q&A with Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge, Instacart’s Head of Research. We just welcomed Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge to Instacart Design as our new Head of Research. Elizabeth comes to us from Twitter, where she led the company’s research...

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A Q&A with Instacart’s first VP of Algorithms We just welcomed Haixun Wang to Instacart as our first-ever Vice President of Algorithms and Distinguished Scientist. In his new role, Haixun will lead the team that...

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We’re excited to announce that seasoned design leader Jason James has joined Instacart as our VP of Design. Jason comes to us from Thumbtack, where he grew the design team six-fold. In his new role,...

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Shoppers are the backbone of Instacart’s business. Every day, we’re energized by being able to help them serve customers more effectively and support their learning and development to build a long-term relationship. In their offline...

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In today’s world of data breaches and privacy concerns, every measure you can take to protect your data is another brick in the wall defending you. At Instacart , no matter how confident we feel...

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I’m very excited to announce the release of Coil 1.0 . Coil is a Kotlin-first image loading library for Android built on top of Kotlin Coroutines. It simplifies loading images from the Internet (or any...

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A Q&A with Dusty Pearce, our first VP of Infrastructure How did you get into Infrastructure Engineering? I started out as a software developer and grew into infrastructure over time. My last few companies have...